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For 15 years, she has been the girl with no name. A teenager known on all official documents as “Girl” will find out from a judge next week whether she can keep the name she was given at birth, but which is banned under Iceland’s naming laws.

Her mother called her Blaer — an Icelandic word meaning “light breeze” — but this was not an appelation that featured among the 1,853 officially sanctioned female names on the island’s Personal Names Register.

There is even less choice for boys. Just 1,712 names fit the tough Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules that officials maintain